Wouldn’t it be nice if your phone service made office operations a little bit easier? When you’re in the market for a VoIP business phone, features and options matter. But it can be tough to choose which service is best for you when VoIP offers such a rich set of amenities. To help you make a smart buying decision on the best VoIP phone service, this guide discusses the six top points that you should consider. (Hint: Price is only one of them).

Businesses of all sizes today are increa singly dependent on their IT systems to run their operations and, as a re sult, they have become more sensitive to vulnerabilities and other IT security concer ns. Add to that the increasing mobility of the workforce and the inherent difficulties in managing roaming devices, and what we have is a scenario in which the manage ment of security operations becomes ever more complex, costly and sophisticated. In fact, many IT system failures and downti mes are caused by human errors due to the manual nature of managing traditional, onpremises IT management solutions. To make matters worse, according to Gart ner, IT security staff are the most difficult to find and retain for SMBs1 , which repre sent the majority of the businesses today. In order to address these challenges, new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions are emerging which can replace or extend the capabilities of traditional, on-premise pro ducts. In particular, SaaS management so lutions for desktop anti-malware, such as Panda Managed Office Protection (PMOP), can be leveraged at anytime, from any Web browser, providing simple, easy-touse management of anti-malware and per sonal firewall protection. The first benefit of a SaaS solution like when compared to traditional antimalware protection for desktops, is the ab sence of upfront investments to implement it.

Delivering an exceptional Web experience has never been easy, but it used to be simpler: if your content looked good in Internet Explorer, you could be reasonably certain your site was working for most of your end-users. Not anymore. Today, no one browser dominates a commanding share of the market. And even within browser brands (e.g. Firefox), different versions perform and behave in different ways. Instead of a common standard, there are many browser versions with significant slices of the overall user pie. Once, you could optimize for Internet Explorer running on PCs. Now, not only does Firefox enjoy a greater share of the market, there are smart phones and other mobile devices to contend with. Yet the biggest change may be the least visible. Web applications have evolved: a greater share of the Web experience responsibility has shifted from servers to the client-side, where the user's own browser plays a bigger role in delivering today's Rich Internet Applications. In sum: there are more browsers on more devices, each with its own performance characteristics, impacting your users' Web experience. Why does it matter? Consider just two statistics (among many that will be explored in this paper): in revenue For site and the business it represents, the stakes are simply too high to ignore.

Elections are the core of the democratic process. In order for an election to remain truly democratic, it must uphold four critical properties: privacy, incoercibility, accuracy and verifiability. In this paper we analyze threats against these properties during the three phases of an election (voter registration, casting votes, and tabulating votes), highlight specific ways voting systems have been compromised, summarize the strengths and weaknesses of current voting techniques, and give guidance for voters to ensure their votes are handled properly in upcoming elections. We conclude with a look to the future of voting systems in America and recommendations for how the federal government and state governments can work with voting machine vendors to adopt business software assurance techniques into the systems they create. Elections are the core of the democratic process. In order for an election to remain truly democratic, it must uphold four critical properties: privacy, incoercibility, accuracy and verifiability. In this paper we analyze threats against these properties during the three phases of an election (voter registration, casting votes, and tabulating votes), highlight specific ways voting systems have been compromised, summarize the strengths and weaknesses of current voting techniques, and give guidance for voters to ensure their are handled properly in upcoming elections.

This white paper outlines existing HP innovations and solutions that can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in different parts of the economy. The selection of HP solutions included in this paper corresponds to the solution areas identified in the report titled, "The potential global CO2 reductions from ICT use: Identifying and assessing the oppurtunities to reduce the first billion tonnes of CO2," developed by Dennis Pamlin, Global Policy Advisor, WWF-Sweden. The report identifies and assesses the oppurtunities to reduce the first billion tonnes of CO2.

Business Continuity and disaster recovery can mean either life or death for a company. In the event of a disaster, inadequate planning and/or technology deployment can compromise a return to operations and bring financial downfall. With this in wind, we note that operational continuity and recovery objectives continue to increase in priority for commercial and government entities alike. Recovery objectives once measured indays or hours are now measured in seconds or minutes. This is motivated by increased business reliance on technology and a diminishing tolerance for downtime and its financial impact. This downtime can also bring unwanted visibility by customers, partners, stakeholders, competitors, and the industry at large - and threaten the credibility of a firm.

After years of eager anticipation, the mobile revolution is now truly moving ahead. According to Morgan Stanley, the volume of mobile users will outstrip the number of desktop Internet users by 2014. By 2011, Nielsen expects the U.S. market will own more smartphones â€“ with advanced browsers and connectivity â€“ than ordinary â€œfeatureâ€ phones.

Due to the rich, engaging experience users receive from multi-media services, we are witnessing an explosion of mobile, cloud and tripleplay services. The statistics around usage can be startling - roughly half of all U.S. adults have used the Internet to watch or download video; worldwide, YouTubeTM gets more than 2 billion views a day; 20 million players have spent 17 billion hours on Xbox Live; and voice over IP (VoIP) services are replacing landlines as the telephony service of choice for an increasing number of customers. The examples go on and on of the ways voice, video, chat, gaming and data services are evolving and being adopted in our daily work and personal lives. unable to deliver the results you need to understand Each of these services is bandwidth intensive, interactive and highly dynamic, requiring an infrastructure that is more application-aware and flexible to deliver an optimal end-user experience. You need to be prepared to handle the unpredictable nature of these services and accommodate huge spikes in demand from users wherever they may be and whenever they want to use the service. Unfortunately, legacy testing approaches designed to help providers and vendors ensure their devices and services are for deployment often fall short.

Ever since the dawn of businessto-business marketing, marketers have relied on traditional public relations strategies and tactics to enhance their overall marketing communications programs. Those tactics have included everything from press releases, press kits and trade show support to proactive media relations, bylined feature articles, case histories and application stories. With traditional PR, the goal has always been to reach your target audiences through thirdparty "gatekeepers" -- editors, reporters and writers. Recently, however, the explosive growth of online media has changed the PR game, creating a deeper, richer two-way communication between a marketer and its target audiences. Now, marketers can use social media strategies and tactics to engage their audiences directly. Those tactics include press release optimization, online media monitoring and reporting, social media press releases, RSS feeds, blogs, podcasts, webcasts and a host of other emerging technologies. Public Relations at a Crossroad Never before has PR practice been so complex... and so challenging. In fact, the world of traditional PR is rapidly converging with the world of social media PR, creating a whole new public relations discipline -- "Convergent PR." For marketers, Convergent PR presents a wealth of new opportunities. It allows you to increase online search results your company's name, brand names, products and services using keywords in PR documents.

As B2B customers become more sophisticated and competition increases, the integration of marketing and sales becomes more critical for meeting and exceeding market demands. And the cost for this integration is only increasing as growth in marketing and sales investment outpaces revenue growth. According to IDC, growth in B2B technology marketing and sales investment is increasing 7% in 2008, yet global IT revenue is increasing at only 5.7%. In addition, IDC estimates that the annual performance cost per B2B sales representative as a result of poor engagement with prospects is $1 million. The following questions were posed by Marketo to Michael Gerard, research vice president of IDC's Executive Advisory Group, on behalf of Marketo's customers. Q. A. Why is it important for marketing and sales to work together across the entire revenue cycle? The expectations for revenue growth in an increasingly competitive environment continue to challenge even the best marketing and sales teams. And with marketing and sales costs to achieve each dollar of revenue increasing, alignment and coordination between these groups are mandatory for success. In addition, B2B buyers are more sophisticated in terms of how and where they access information and how that information is used to and drive the decision-making process.

Love it, hate it, or both, email is the dominant form of electronic communication. Eighty-five billion emails were sent every day worldwide in 2006. It's impossible to imagine life without it. But is email right for every style of communication we conduct in business? Should it be the biggest game in town? How heavily should your business rely on it? Is there a better alternative? Email does have a few things going for it. Everyone has email, and it often beats the time and trouble of a face-to-face visit or picking up the phone. You can fire a message off in a few seconds, and you can ignore your in-box if you like. But, if email is the epitome of efficient business communication, or the best we can ever expect, why are we investing so much energy in next-generation media like instant messaging, web conferencing and video conferencing? Why are organizations increasingly looking at wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 phenomena to improve their communication effectiveness? And why do we still have phones on our desks? As businesses rely more and more on cross-functional teamwork to accomplish their goals, we believe they rely much too heavily on email. They to be thinking beyond the in-box.

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